Monday, August 29, 2005

Bombard ALL your senses — seeing, hearing, talking, smelling, touching.

KINESTHETICS: Write or type what you have to remember on a card.
CONCEPTUALS: Find where the information fits in an outline.
CONCEPTUALS: Read what is around it to understand the context.
CONCEPTUALS: Find examples of how it is used.
VISUALS: Close your eyes and from memory see the words in your head.
VISUALS: Post the card up in several places (refrigerator door, computer screen, mirror, briefcase, etc.)
VISUALS: Carry the card with you and look at it several times a day.
VERBALS: Say the words out loud whenever you see the card.
KINESTHETICS Movement: Learn how the deaf use sign language for the words.
AUDITORY Sound: Tape record the words and play it back on a portable casette player (while you are driving, etc.).
SMELL: Get scented markers and mark up the words.
Purple - grape - person's name
Brown - cinnemon - physical object (house, car, etc.)
Blue - blueberry - inputs of time or money
Cyan - mint - place name
Green - apply - action or process
Orange - orange - adjective, description
Red - cherry - documents or outputs
Black - licorice - moral or lesson learned


Oh yes you'll remember, and you'll look like a FOOL.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Blah Blah Blah

::At the moment I listen to:::::::::::::::

:Neutral Milk Hotel - In the airplane over the sea
Pitchfork Review
:Arcade Fire - Funeral
Nutther pitchfork review because i'm too lazy - just get them
:Bob Dylan - Time out of mind
Because it sounds like the right record for this time of year
uh-huh